Dominic Covvey, FACMI, FHIMSS, FCIPS, SMIEEE, ITCP
President & Director, National Institutes of Health Informatics (NIHI)

Dominic is the President and Director of NIHI and a Retired Professor from the University of Waterloo. His research has addressed areas such as healthcare workflow, competencies and curricula in Health Informatics (HI) and the design of electronic health records. He began his research career at Toronto General Hospital, where he was a senior research fellow for 15 years. Dominic then worked 15 years in the consulting industry, serving hundreds of clients in the U.S. and Canadian public and private sectors. He later became a Full Professor, and Chair in HI Research, and founded and led the Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research for 7 years at UW. More recently he founded NIHI and continues to write and teach in the area of HI. He just co-authored a compendium of 3 volumes on ‘The Nature of Clinical Care’.

He has received research grants from CIHR, NSERC, the Ontario Heart Foundation, industry and other sources. He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, a senior Life Member of the IEEE, a Life Member of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, an Information Technology Certified Professional (Retired), and a Life Member of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS). In 2011, he was awarded the 2011 COACH “Leadership in the Field of Health Informatics Award” (www.healthinformaticsawards.ca) in 2011. This award recognizes “an individual's outstanding ongoing contributions as a thought leader, both nationally and internationally, to advance Canadian health informatics or Canadian telehealth” .